* Move configuration in its own class in order to reduce the verbosity of index.php
* Add authentication mechanism using HTTP auth
* Add a method to get the config parameters
* Remove the installation checks from the index page
* Log all failed authentication attempts
Uses the parse_ini_file function to load default settings from the default configuration file 'config.default.ini.php'. Optionally loads custom settings from 'config.ini.php' to replace the default
values.